Portal:Current events/2018 March 22
March 22, 2018 (Thursday)
Armed attacks and conflicts
- Somali Civil War (2009–present)
- A car bomb blast in Mogadishu, near the Weheliye hotel in the Somali capital, kills at least 14 people and injures 10 others. Al-Shabab claims responsibility for the blast. (AP via MSN.com)
- The city government of Atlanta, Georgia, United States, experiences an outage on some official websites, suspected to be caused by a cyberattack. (WRBL), (Fox 5)
Business and economy
- Economic policy of Donald Trump
- U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer tells a Senate panel that President Donald Trump has decided to "pause" tariffs on steel and aluminium imports from the European Union, Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Mexico, and South Korea. (BBC)
Disasters and accidents
- 2018 Unipetrol explosion
- Six people are dead after an explosion at a Unipetrol plant in Kralupy nad Vltavou, Czech Republic. (BBC)
- History of autonomous cars
International relations
- China–United States relations
- U.S. President Donald Trump imposes tariffs on US$60 billion of Chinese goods, while also limiting China’s ability to invest in the U.S. technology industry. (The Washington Post)
Law and crime
- Murder of Maria Ladenburger
- Afghan immigrant Hussein Khavari is convicted of rape and murder in a case that provoked widespread discussion of refugee immigration to Germany. (BBC)
- Ukrainian crisis
- Ukrainian MP Nadiya Savchenko is arrested in Parliament over an alleged plot to attack Parliament and overthrow the government. (BBC)
- Alleged Libyan influence in the 2007 French elections
- In a statement to French investigating magistrates, ex-President Nicolas Sarkozy refutes corruption charges relating to alleged receipt of funding from the then President of Libya, Muammar Gaddafi, in 2007. (The Telegraph)
Politics and elections
- Protests against Emmanuel Macron
- People in 150 places across France take to the streets peacefully in a general strike to protest President Macron's economic reforms. Railways, airways, schools and power generation are affected. (Reuters)
- Cyprus dispute
- Turkey announces it is to send a drilling boat to disputed waters claimed by both Cyprus and Northern Cyprus. (The Guardian)
- Poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal
- Detective Sergeant Nick Bailey, wounded when he came to the aid of the poisoned Russian dissidents, is discharged from hospital. (BBC)
- UK Prime Minister Theresa May calls the incident "part of a pattern of Russian aggression against Europe" and promises to raise the matter at an upcoming European Union summit. (BBC)
- An inquest is opened into the death of murdered Russian exiled dissident Nikolai Glushkov in London. (The Independent)
- Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections
- John Dowd, the most senior lawyer advising U.S. President Donald Trump on allegations of Russian electoral interference, resigns. (BBC) (CNN)